Category: Cloud Computing

More and more people buy smartphones and enslaved them in their daily lives for all, both professional and leisure activities. Much of this revolves around intensive mobile applications. The more applications are used, the data on their phones consume more space and resources needed to store the information. The company claims these services and the cloud is best suited to manage and distribute frame. However, cloud computing has great potential, presents new challenges and risks for those trying to find an answer.

More than a billion smartphones will be sold in 2015, according to an estimate from general research on market. This year, the market for mobile applications based on the cloud has increased by 90% compared to 2009. In 2016, analysts predict that there will be 10 billion connected devices in the use of phones worldwide, and smartphone traffic will be 50 times what it is today.

Currently we have different mobile operating systems on the market, with Android (Google) and iOS (Apple) the most widespread. For both applications, some of the best known used by the vast majority of Internet users are storage are developed every day: Flickr, Picasa, Pinterest, Youtube, Vimeo, ivoox, Goear, Soundcloud, 4shared, etc.

With increasing use of mobile cloud applications, IT managers must find answers to issues related to network security. In the cloud, the number of agents increases with access to all information and legal framework in which they operate is diffuse.

Cloud computing arrived in the technology market to stay. Those who still have questions or think the cloud is just a fad, just look at the numbers to change the mind. Forrester analysts estimate that by 2020, the cloud will be about 15% of the global IT market. A recent survey shows that 66% of companies in india believe that the cloud is vital to business success, and IDC forecasts show that the market turnover of US $ 257 million in 2013 and should reach US $ 798 million in 2015.

The growing demand is motivated by the well known benefits of cloud, such as the optimization of costs, reduction of delivery time (servers and applications), and the system availability improvement. Although these benefits apply to companies of all types and sizes, the cloud brings a special advantage for small and medium enterprises, which often goes unnoticed: access to an almost unlimited amount of computing resources.

If we think on how the market was five years ago, it would be impossible to imagine a small business managing process petabytes of information, or by using thousands of servers to meet the demand of its customers. With the power of cloud computing, however, this is not only possible, but common. Hundreds of companies have appeared on the market with business models that are only possible because of the cloud technology.

Imagine a media company with access to the same content delivery infrastructure, an internet company with access to the same number of servers and disks that Google use, or a small e-commerce with the same ability to process data like Amazon or eNlight Cloud. It is this equality of power that cloud computing brings, especially for Indian entrepreneurs.

Indians have always been one of the most creative people in the world, but this creativity has always been limited by our access to resources of all kinds. Cloud computing levels such access in the field of technology, allowing us to put our creativity into practice like never before been possible. With that, the sky is the limit for the national entrepreneurship.

The process of evolution of the media and various technologies are clearly reflected in the lives of individuals and businesses in general. With the evolution of internet, companies are using various possibilities to leave their increasingly competitive products or services on the market. Among the various known and advantages that businesses can use the Internet, are the concept of cloud computing and grid computing. The following addresses the concept of grid computing and cloud computing, as well as their differences.

What is grid computing?

Nowadays the processing capacity is limited, both in our personal computers or servers in several companies. Now imagine having the arrangement further processing rate so that the server processing is at the peak demand, i.e. without the need to know all the computing apparatus that exists through this processing. This concept of processing is called Grid computing.

Grid computing aims to combine processing power of thousands or even millions of small computers connected in local networks or long distance networks to be able to process large tasks on a given server. The grid computing applications run on a virtual server, which has integration with other resources that are able to share resources quickly and are easily managed.

What is cloud computing?

Cloud computing aims to provide all the computing resources as a service over the internet. An example is that in the early nineteenth century, during the industrial revolution, the industries had to produce their own electricity or mechanical. Nowadays industries consume energy as a service, paying only for what they use. Cloud computing has a similar proposal, where computing resources will be the responsibility of specialized companies, which will manage the resources and market them as a service over the internet.

Cloud computing can be described as a huge environment of virtual or physical servers, reaching a concept of computing resources that include processing power, storage, connectivity, platforms, applications and services available on the Internet.

Conceptual differences between Grid and Cloud Computing

There is always a confusion between the concept of cloud computing and grid computing, as both share the same cost reduction objectives, increase flexibility and accessibility features.

The concept of grid computing basically offer processing power through some mechanism, since cloud computing is to provide every cell of computational resources on demand, over the internet and consuming as a service. Despite the similarities, the paradigms work with different concepts that can work together or work in isolation.

A cloud computing model is the SaaS (Software as a Service). In this model, software solutions are offered over the internet, that is, the company does not need license purchases to have a solution, but only needs to hire a service from a provider that offers office applications. An example is an office application solution that is free, like Google Docs.

The two concepts discussed in this article have similar goals, but work in different ways and for different purposes.

The cloud computing technology and trend racing ahead have achieved a great speed in the last few years and now in 2014, making its move into the data centers, displacing all the traditional computation and storage methods.

Recently, a 2014 IT Priorities survey was conducted by TechTarget, where around 1700 IT professionals, managers and business analysts have shown their interest and participated. As a result, after asking their opinions, it was clear that the cloud-based projects are gaining a very large share of the IT budgets, even as the other line items fall down or stay unchangeable.

From the survey conducted, it was found that 30 percent of businesses are planning to adopt the cloud hosting services or cloud computing-based solutions offered by the external service providers, while another 22 percent of companies have plans on implementing their own private cloud. Participants also mentioned that the share for cloud services will increase by 40 percent by the end of 2015.

Today, the most used cloud-based application are Disaster Recovery or Disaster Recovery as a Service (DraaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), however, the result has shown IT professionals interest more in the cloud storage services. Mainly for archiving purpose, the cloud storage is a perfect solution which helps in saving space and stores the data for longer in less investment.

The result showed that by the end of 2015, around 20 percent of the companies from those 60 percent will have their storage and backup into the cloud. Moreover, 45 percent of the participated people said that they are planning to use the Storage as a Service (STaaS) in mid 2015, whereas, only 52 percent people have plans to use Software as a Service.

People are now making more and more use of cloud-based services for bulk archive and storing their sensitive data. As the cloud-based services are getting implemented and utilized by companies, it is getting clear that the virtual data center is getting people away from the physical data centers.

While cloud storage has opened up a world of opportunities and aids further validate migration to the cloud, but with it, plenty of compliance and security issues. Unexpectedly, it was found in the survey that 19 percent businesses have plans to implement external Security as a Service in 2014.

Large organizations are planning and the concept of cloud as a resource are sold on for their global enterprise. However, the security issues drive raised costs, as security requirements are pushing IT professionals to look into internal hosting vs the much-advertised cost savings from the third-party providers.

The year 2015 is going to be great for technology industry, as much of the companies will be contributing towards cloud computing growth and success by implementing various cloud-based services.

The concept of cloud computing refers to the use of storage capacity and processing shared computers and servers, interconnected through the Internet.

The service should provide the ability to access data from anywhere in the world, anytime, no need to install software or store data locally. Access to programs, services and remote files is through the Internet. This environment model is more feasible than the use of physical units that require constant maintenance and investment in hardware and software updates.

Already the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is the outsourcing of business processes of a company, which normally is not part of their core business and therefore the transfer to a specialized third in the activity.

The excellence of outsourcing will be completed uniting both promoting the concentration of efforts on a business of their own and thereby reducing costs.

The outsourcing of operational areas is nothing new, the embryos were the areas of maintenance, cleanliness and safety and the great success served as an inspiration for branching such demand for many areas, which soon reached the IT sector of large corporations. A few years ago, IT, Cloud Computing was born and now maturing model, offers innovation, making it possible to outsource the entire physical infrastructure in an innovative model, which seeks to meet each client in order to suit the particular specific feature, encompassing hardware and software and their respective updates.

Following the worldwide technological development, IT companies have been investing in recent years in this concept by offering BPO-Tax with the support of the development area of tax systems to improve the attendance of Indian tax legislation, offering facilities to deadlines and costs recognized by sector.

Validated with data stored in the cloud and you can avoid spending on filing structure, and promote security, modernity and accounting expertise in real time.

The BPO-Fiscal and cloud computing are performed using tools that allow transfer of files between the client and the area of operation of BPO practice, quickly and safely. There is also the validation of magnetic files using a web browser, to guarantee the integrity of information prior to the effective delivery of the same to the Treasury, thus avoiding future notifications.